Friday, February 12, 2010

Are mice immune to scorpion venom?

I saw a video on YouTube that had a scorpion and a mouse being pitted against each other. Could this really happen in the wild, and which animal would win?Are mice immune to scorpion venom?
The mouse involved in the YouTube video was almost certainly one of the two species of grasshopper mice. These mice are unusual in that their normal diet is meat, in the form of insects, spiders, scorpions, and occasionally other mice. I have located a comment in the literature that states that grasshopper mice handle scorpion prey differently than other prey, which was ';not related to the neurotoxic components of these scorpions' venoms, to which the mice are resistant. Instead, the difficulties appeared to result from other constituents of Centruroides' venom that cause intense, short-term pain.'; (Centruroides is the genus name of the scorpion species being preyed upon.)





The article citation is below.Are mice immune to scorpion venom?
Scorpion would win, if it could catch the mouse... Because yes, its venom would paralyse/kill the mouse.
i think it is cause i saw a video where scorpion hit it with it's tail 15 times and the mice was still standing. i think the scorpion would win.
i have no idea and thats weird but hope u get the right answer
hopefully not

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